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Rather then focusing on one minor complaint, perhaps people should be slightly more alarmed at the 13 complaints of alleged misconduct which were referred to the Legal practitioners disciplinary tribunal. LSRA is on course to receive over a thousand complaints in a full year. And yet some...

Possibly, but then would we also start believing 2=2=7. After all, some people think Trump won the last election in the US

Without doing anything radical, the obvious ways are to either get a higher paying job or a 2nd job, either part time or freelancing in the gig economy (and I don't necessarily mean riding a bike for Deliveroo but there are options out there for remote free lancing part time jobs in, for...

Kennys are ok but I found their website is clunky Try the local charity shops Also join your local library and download the Borrowbook App, it's a great free resource for Audio books

I've had a couple of packages delayed this year from the UK due to customs duties not being paid and on both occassions I had make the payment to the courier (An Post on both occassions). Dept of Revenue says you must contact the courier...

Planning a similar trip next year and I'm nervous on Revolut, mainly because of the awful customer service stories. Is an An Post currency card an effective option?

The "audit trail"!. I remember the e voting machine issues for example and yet, the chances are they were more accurate then someone reading hundreds of ballots in an hour. There is an element here of humans not accepting the machine may be more efficient and effective. But then, we once thought...

I can see a whole lot of lower level Accountancy, Legal and Banking roles at risk, anything basically where the "sausage machine" is human is at risk of being replaced. Maybe not such a bad thing in one respect to have fewer lawyers accountants and bankers in the world? Having said that, it...

It'll probably put the essay factories for students in India our of business

bear in mind it's not just for ads, my company have used professional voices for the "press 1 to talk to an agent" on IVR for phone systems. If they can do it in Irish as well, it can be an advantage

I've a team working in a high volume customer service environment, unless it contains a specific threat (which on a couple of occassions we've passed to the Gardai) we either ignore or delete them or on occassions, they get passed around the team for a laugh, especially the "do you know who I...

Cheque for €0.03 received yesterday, at least the state is getting lots of stamp duty for all of these.

I know quite a number of IT contractors in Quangos and state bodies and when their position was being converted to a perm role and they were asked to apply (and would have probably got it as well), they declined as they would have been significantly worse off financially. Going rate for a top...

Going to be very interesting to see what happens in Leinster and to Leo once Stuart Lancaster leaves.

In terms of buying insurance, it may be no different then using someone like Chill online. Real challenge will be on how do they deal with changes to cars etc or will the outsource that to Allianz

In my case and in order to qualify for Class 2 I had to submit a CV and covering letter and then it got reviewed by a case officer who basically said I was Class 2.

They've been posting these out since before Christmas

Who would they sue? The state- sorry it was the law of the land put in place by a democratically elected government. The Church, why? They didn't write the laws. Lets not forget as well that a lot of women may not have wanted their female colleagues working outside the home with men, taking a...

So firstly, will the Solicitor visit the hospital/nursing home?. Yes, most will (subject to visiting rights due to Covid etc). In the case of my own mother, my self and my sister were given the Power under the EPA, the solicitor came to the house and had a discussion there with Mam so he was...

It still doesn't explain why anyone would firstly put a swing in a bar and secondly why anyone would want a photo taken of them sitting in it. But maybe I'm just getting old....